Eyewitness accounts of viewing pictures

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Source: Negley Farson, The Way of a Transgressor (London: Victor Gollancz, 1936), pp. 328, 569 Text: We saw Marie’s, the most famous brothel in the world, with its staggeringly obscene movie. In those days the star film was a French … Continue reading →

Source: Georges Perec (trans. David Bellos), Things: A Story of the Sixties (London: Vintage, 2011) [orig. Les Choses, 1965], pp. 55-57 Text: Above all they had the cinema. And this was probably the only area where they had learned everything … Continue reading →

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Cinema programme used as an illustration in At a French Château Source: Miriam Irene Kimball, At a French Château (New York: The Lion Press, c.1915, printed for private distribution), pp. Text: We were thrown into great excitement one night at … Continue reading →